PORTUGAL IN BLACK & WHITE AND COLOR Last year, Robert and Tina Sharpe photographed Portugal, each in their own way. Their combined work of over 40 large images will be on display at The National Arts Club. 15 Gramercy Park South, Trask Gallery. Oct. 5  Nov. 1. Opening reception is Thurs, Oct. 7 from 6-8pm. 212-475-3424.

PAINTINGS OF ITALY Fifteen of Lucy Barbers paintings of Italy will be on display in her third solo New York City exhibition. Her works express her deeply personal and passionate experience with painting landscapes. Oct. 5-30. Open Tues.-Sat. from 11am  6pm. The Painting Center, 52 Greene St. 212-343-1060.

NEW YORK: CITY OF REFUGE Special exhibit chronicles 60 years of Jewish immigration to New York City. Above, Aron Aronov, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, poses with traditional Bukharian Jewish objects. Museum of Jewish Heritage. 36 Battery Place. 646-437-4200.

RECIPROCITY IN TRIBECA Two photographers share their visions of the world after nightfall and demonstrate a love for the vacant and mysterious. Michelle McCarron questions the ordinary while Stephen Schuster investigates urban environments. McCarrons Pumps, is at left, and Schusters Brooklyn Tunnel#8 is right. Runs Sept. 8 - Oct. 11. A Taste of Art. 147 Duane St. at W. Broadway. Open Mon.  Fri. from 12-8 pm. 212-964-5493.

The chancellor rober r. livingston masonic library of grand lodge, 23rd St. at 6th Ave., Mon., Wed.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tue., noon-8 p.m., 212-337-6620: New exhibits about Freemasonry & the Masons at this free museum and library, find out about some of the best kept secrets in our nations history, open-ended.

The lower east side tenement museum, LMCC, 91 Orchard St., call for hours, 212-431-0714: Living American, public art installation considers the meaning of American vs. Immigrant, through Dec. 6; Points of Entry - Regarding the Mihrab, storefront installation; permanent exhibitions about the tenement history on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, ongoing.

Lower Manhattan cultural council/Creative time, Foley Square, Pearl & Centre Sts. east of Broadway, 24 hours, 7 days. creativetime.org: Freedom of Expression National Monument, artwork by LAURIE HAWKINSON, JOHN MALPEDE & ERIKA ROTHENBERG allows people to express their thoughts through a huge bullhorn put out for public use, through Nov. 13.

Swiss institute of contemporary art, 495 Broadway, 3rd fl., 212-925-2035: Before the End (The Last Painting Show), a group exhibition of paintings done by a historical group of conceptual artists in the 1960s, through Oct. 23.

Uzi n.y. gallery, ltd., 120 Ave. C., Wed.-Sun., 3-7 p.m., 212-420-8103: Oily Crumbs from the Brassiere Museum, work by, with and about JACK SMITH, in honor of the 15th anniversary of his passing, through Oct. 16.